Karwar: Six time MP Anantkumar Hegde has been denied ticket by BJP in Uttar Kannada constituency for the present Lok Sabha elections. Former Speaker of Karnataka Legislative Assembly Kageri Vishweshwar Hegde has replaced him for the contest.

Anantkumar Hegde had contested seven times continuously from the constituency and had been elected six times. But he disappeared from the scene after previous Lok Sabha polls and to come back only two months ago. He continued his communally provocative statements which created more controversies and even gave a statement of his party changing the Constitution by winning 400 seats. This created a new controversy at national level. He was absent for all campaigns in the last Lok Sabha polls, even for Modi’s public meet in Ankola.

Kageri Vishweshwar Hegde too has been elected 6 times for Vidhan Sabha and faced a single defeat in the last polls. Coming from RSS background, he has been in politics since 1999. Chakravarti Soolibele, Journalist Hariprakash Konemane were also initially named for the ticket. However BJP high command has ended all speculations by granting the ticket to Kageri who is contesting Lok Sabha elections for the first time.

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Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.

The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.

"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.

The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.

There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.

Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.

The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.